Famous people born in 1908

Bette Davis was an acclaimed American actress

Robert Rossen was an American film director, screenwriter and film producer

Joshua Lockwood Logan III was an American film and stage director

Edward Dmytryk was a Canadian-born American film director who became famous for film noir in the 1940s

Sir David Lean was an Academy award-winning British film director, producer and cinematographer

Carole Lombard was an American film actress known for her energetic and often unusual roles in screwball comedies of the 1930s

Celia Johnson was an English actress who bewitched the audience with her performance on both stage and the screen during 1920s-1970s

Willard Frank Libby was an American physical chemist who was awarded the ‘Nobel Prize’ in Chemistry in 1960

Sir Reginald Carey ‘Rex’ Harrison was an English stage and film actor

Lev Landau was a well-known Soviet theoretical physicist